From a newsletter I got today from Frontsight. Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it. In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively...
I just realized that I have made nearly thirty posts here and not one of them deals with the smoking ban straight on. I've given scraps in the posts about rights and economics but now it is time to deal with the ban itself. It is fundamentaly wrong because it is a Fascist policy. That is a word often used as an insult when the person using it runs out of logic. I am using it in a more precise way. If we read Mussolini on Fascism we find he was a kind of socialist but didn't like the methods...
The right to choose, the right to smoke, the right to clean air and the right to have someone wipe my backside are claimed with great frequency. Okay maybe we don't hear real people whining about clean air very frequently but there are many ridiculous things people claim to have "as a right". The subject of rights can be a firecracker. It doesn't seem to strike many as odd that there is so little agreement on the subject. A discussion of types of beer or tobacco or the merits...
(to print and hand out)
the source of government power
